reconcile
verb (used with object)
to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired.
was reconciling
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past progressiveof reconcile.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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And it was reconciling those two things within this one character that I think made her the most human.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
But part of the challenge was reconciling the woman with the legend.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2019
By the time Glenn learned of the heat shield problem during his third orbit, he was reconciling himself to the likelihood that he would have to calculate his own angle of re-entry.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2016
I think part of it was reconciling with my father as a writer, as this caricature, and as the guy I grew up with, as my father.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2016
His word was reconciling, like his influence, which was never associated with partisanship.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
